My day was pretty mundane really, I walked into work, had a fairly run off the mill sort of day with a variety of library tasks including putting books on shelves, taking books off shelves, issuing books to borrowers, discharging books when borrowers brought them back, putting new dust jacket covers on tatty books and withdrawing a huge pile of books off the system, ripping out the first page and pricing them up for sale. But I did get paid today so I celebrated that with a brie and pesto pastry for lunch :).
Back at home the children watched Harry Potter and Davies dressed up as Harry in his glasses and a cloak while Tarly was Hermione. I had a massive pile of books on chickens waiting for me at work, which as I was walking home again I quite ruthlessly picked through only bringing the pick of them home and picked up HP 2, 3 and 4 on dvd for them to watch over the next couple of days. I’m still flatly refusing NOT to watch them on some sort of hangover principle about all the hype of the books and the films – well that and the whole mystical magical world sort of thing not being something I’m remotely interested in. I was far more of a Malory Towers and Famous Five kinda girl than a Lord of the Rings as a child – I’d rather read about / watch real people doing real stuff than fantasy or sci-fi type stuff. They left our house and went to play at Lucy’s for a while (this is all hearsay btw, from what D&S told me :)) before coming back here again after lunch to meet Dad.
Dad walked them to Brooklands and bought them ice creams and when I got home Scarlett was cuddling a chick and chatting away to my Dad, while Davies was sitting near the garden wall with a little sign written by Dad advertising lavender sprigs for sale for 10 pence each – and he’d sold one! 😆 Dad left and Scarlett went out to man the lavender stand with Davies while I cooked their tea.
I then got everyone to dig out all the library books from their bedrooms and various other places and piled them all up in the hall to tick them off the lists I’d brought home of all the items out on our tickets – nearly 70 in all :shock:, we made a biggish pile of things to take back and the rest all disappeared back into bedrooms again, but at least everything is accounted for!
Chicks continue to grow apace – they are a week old today, all have proper wing feathers and the start of tail feathers showing today. Feathers (one wing) continues to do ok but is markedly smaller than the others – I’m pretty sure it’s grown, just not as fast, and it has wing feathers and is flapping it ok. The yellow ones are still interechangeable although there does seem to be one very vocal one. We put a stick in their brooder tonight to give them something to start perching on which they are loving. The yellow ones particularly are very friendly, despite the pecking and will happily hop onto your hand if you put it in and sit for quite some while being stroked quite contentedly. Hopefully there are a couple of hens in there at least who will make nice tame pets having been reared and handled so much by Davies and Scarlett.
wow – they’ve changed so fast!
They really have grown!
I used to sell things from my nana’s front garden. i remember one summer my friend and I made loads of book marks and sold them.